open source in German

open source in German

What does "open source" mean?

1. adjective Of software: released with its underlying code made publicly available under a licence that lets anyone read it, use it, change it and share their changed version.
   "We chose an open source database because we could read the code ourselves rather than trust a sales brochure."
2. noun The wider practice and community of developing software in the open, with contributions accepted from people outside the original team.
   "She got into open source by fixing a typo in a documentation page and never really stopped."
3. adjective More generally, of designs, hardware, data or research: published so that others may freely inspect, reuse and modify it.
   "The lab published an open source design for the ventilator so hospitals could build their own."

open source in a sentence

• We chose an open source database because we could read the code ourselves rather than trust a sales brochure.
• The whole project is open source, so anyone can fork it and build their own version.
• She got into open source by fixing a typo in a documentation page and never really stopped.
• The lab published an open source design for the ventilator so hospitals could build their own.

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